A senior representative of the Muslim Council of Britain has said that white British people have a responsibility to integrate more to prevent communities becoming ghettoised.

His comments come in response to an official report warning that many of Britain’s towns and cities have been transformed “out of all recognition” by mass immigration.

The report, by the government’s community cohesion tsar Dame Louise Casey, warned that parts of British towns had been turned into ghettoes which successive governments have ignored “for fear of being branded racist or Islamophobic”, and which are creating “escalating divisions and tensions”.

But Miqdaad Versi, assistant secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has struck back, writing for The Guardian that Casey is wrong to blame Muslim communities. Instead, he said white flight and economic inequality were greater problems – and that white people ought to do more to tackle them.

“Her focus is primarily on Muslims: she does not provide any solutions for African Caribbean, Roma or Traveller communities, with no acknowledgement of Scotland and Northern Ireland’s history of integration challenges – from which we must learn,” he said of Casey’s report.

He added: “Worryingly, Casey often conflates Muslim with Asian communities, giving the false impression that all regressive cultural practices are based on the Islamic faith despite clear evidence to the contrary. While the report does recognise the huge levels of socio-economic deprivation, low educational attainment and discrimination some Muslims face, none of her recommendations tackle structural inequality.”

He asks: “Why does Casey say so little on how to tackle the fact that white British and Irish ethnic groups ‘are least likely to have ethnically mixed social networks’ – one of the key signs of integration.

“And why is there so little discussion about what to do about ‘white flight’ from the inner cities as one of the drivers of further segregation.”

Versi argues that more should be done to highlight the “extensive and positive contribution of migrants”, insisting that the focus on “migrant communities, and those of some Muslims in particular” – not the actions of those Muslims themselves – are the “real barriers to integration”.

He slams Casey in particular for “sensationalising” the rise in the number of British mosques (Casey says their growth in recent years has been “exponential”), while “underplaying the growth of the far right”.

And he criticises her for apparently claiming that “Christmas is a problem for Muslim communities”. However, although Casey did criticise local councils for “over worrying” about causing offence to minority groups through the celebration of Christmas, during a speech to council leaders, the issue doesn’t appear in her final report. Casey made it clear during her speech that such attitudes among council staff led directly to the abuse suffered by 1,400 girls in Rotherham.

“The council and police were in denial about what was happening in their town,” Casey said in her speech. “That was a tragic failure on so many levels, not least for the victims who weren’t heard or whose abuse could have been prevented.”

Versi isn’t the only prominent Muslim to have slammed the report. Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation think-tank, condemned it as “inflammatory, divisive, pandering to the agenda of the far-Right”.

He said: “We are saddened that once again British Muslims have become a political football which is bashed from time to time without any regard for the impact this has on individuals who are then subjected to threats and violence.”

The UK Home Office banned me from entering the country for saying: “[Islam] is a religion and is a belief system that mandates warfare against unbelievers for the purpose for establishing a societal model that is absolutely incompatible with Western society” — which is a demonstrably true statement. The UK Home Office recently admitted Shaykh Hamza Sodagar into the country, despite the fact that he has said: “If there’s homosexual men, the punishment is one of five things. One – the easiest one maybe – chop their head off, that’s the easiest. Second – burn them to death. Third – throw ’em off a cliff. Fourth – tear down a wall on them so they die under that. Fifth – a combination of the above.” The Home Office also recently admitted two jihad preachers who had praised the murderer of a foe of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. One of them was welcomed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

But these three bishops from areas where Muslims are persecuting Christians cannot enter. Probably Home Office officials were afraid of offending their own Muslim population by doing so.

Britain is not finished?

THREE archbishops from war-torn Iraq and Syria have been refused permission to enter the UK despite being invited to London to meet Prince Charles.

The Christians, including the Archbishop of Mosul, were told there was “no room at the inn” by the Home Office when they applied for visas to attend the consecration of the UK’s first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral.

Last night the decision was described as “unbelievable” by critics who pointed out that extreme Islamic leaders had been allowed visas.

The Prince of Wales addressed the congregation at St Thomas Cathedral in London last week, while both the Queen and the Prime Minister sent personal messages of congratulations.

Prince Charles, who has previously described the persecution of the Christians in the Middle East as a “tragedy”, used his address to highlight the suffering of Syrian Christians.

But the welcome did not extend to Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf, the Archbishop of Mosul, nor to Timothius Mousa Shamani, the Archbishop of St Matthew’s, which covers the Nineveh valley in northern Iraq, who were refused UK visas to attend the event on November 24.

The UK also refused to grant a visa to Archbishop Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh, the Archbishop of Homs and Hama in Syria.

In his case the British embassy told him that it would not waiver from its policy of not granting visas to anyone in Syria.

The men were also told they were denied entry because they did not have enough money to support themselves and they might not leave the UK.

He said: “These are men who have pressing pastoral responsibilities as Christian areas held by IS are liberated.

“That is why we cannot understand why Britain is treating Christians in this way?”

Dr Martin Parsons, head of research at the Barnabas Fund, an aid agency which has helped more than 8,000 Christians escape persecution at the hands of IS, said: “It’s unbelievable that these persecuted Christians who come from the cradle of Christianity are being told there is no room at the inn, when the UK is offering a welcome to Islamists who persecute Christians.”

The Home Office recently issued guidance stating that there should be a presumption that senior members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should be granted asylum in the UK – despite the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood has repeatedly incited violence against Egyptian Christians.

Dr Parsons also claims that visas were granted in July to two Pakistani Islamic leaders who have called for the killing of Christians accused of blasphemy.

He said: “There is a serious systemic problem when Islamist leaders who advocate persecution of Christians are given the green light telling them that their applications for UK visas will be looked on favourably, while visas for short pastoral visits to the UK are denied to Christian leaders whose churches are facing genocide.

“That is an urgent issue that Home Office ministers need to grasp and correct.”…

Political correctness gone mad, or just Theresa May?Robert Spencer thinks the latter, after her latest outburst.

British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke at a luncheon of the Conservative Friends of Israel Monday, and boasted about banning me and others from the country.Her high-minded tone, however, only underscored the hypocrisy and double standard – and open pandering to Islamic jihadists – that the British government has demonstrated in determining who can enter Britain and who can’t. May said:

Indeed, when I was Home Secretary we took what I believe was an important step in gauging a truer picture of the problem, requiring all police forces to record religious hate crimes separately, by faith.

And I made sure we kept extremism – including the sort that peddles anti-Semitic vitriol – out of our country.

That is why I said no to so-called comedians like Dieudonne coming to Britain.

It’s why I stopped Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Pastor Terry Jones coming too – since Islamophobia comes from the same wellspring of hatred.

It is why I kicked out Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada as well.

As you can imagine, Spencer seethed with righteous indignation - and so he should.

So evidently, as far as May is concerned, I’m the “Islamophobic” equivalent of Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada. Abu Hamza is in solitary confinement in a super-max U.S. for, among other things, conspiring to set up a training camp for jihad terrorists in Bly, Oregon.

Abu Qatada was convicted of plotting the jihad massacre of Americans and Israelis in Jordan.

Now have I plotted to fly a jetliner into Big Ben, or blow myself up in a crowd of Britons? No, I’ve never plotted, called for or approved of any kind of terrorist or vigilante violence against anyone. And thus May’s speaking of me as the flip side of Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada is beyond outrageous: it’s so ridiculous that it should lead any competent member of the British Parliament to question her fitness to remain in office, if not her sanity.

Even worse, the British government has not been consistent in banning jihadis from the country. Just days ago, the UK Home Office admitted the Pakistani Muslim cleric Syed Muzaffar Shah Qadri, whose preaching of hatred and jihad violence is so hardline that he is banned from preaching in Pakistan. However, the negative publicity over this move was such that even the mosque that had planned to host him has now canceled, claiming that they were shocked! shocked! to learn that Qadri preaches intolerance, hatred, and violence.

This is the comic opera that is contemporary Britain: the Home Office is so bent on appeasing Islamic supremacists that it goes farther than even mosques in the country are willing to do.

It really is quite sad, not to say pathetic, to read that our prime minister is quite happy to paint her capitulation to fear of Muslim violence as some sort of principled decision. The only reason why Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were not allowed to to come to the UK was her fear that a) the might be a Muslim "reaction" involving a proof that Islam means peace by blowing something or someone up and b) that she might also be called names like that stupid term "islamophobe" by the likes of Keith Vaz if she stood up for free speech.

My view of May is she is first and foremost a career politician. She has very few principle, and her main priority is her own position.

At the next election we will face the same dilemma as the Americans... which of the two idiots will do less damage as PM? May or Corbyn? Oh, I so wish we could actually have some sensible people for once...

manfred wrote:At the next election we will face the same dilemma as the Americans... which of the two idiots will do less damage as PM? May or Corbyn? Oh, I so wish we could actually have some sensible people for once...

Well, if it's a choice between careerist and a zealot... but yes, we're in a jam - and to make matters worse, we've only a fraction of the numbers the Americans had to pick from!

"If a woman passes one kilometer from someone who is praying, is the prayer canceled then? What is the maximum distance from which a prayer is cancelled altogether?" Majid Oukacha

There is one other matter to consider. If Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller ever came to Britain and gave lectures on the true nature and motives of Islam. It would force May`s hand in admitting that there truly is a very significant problem with Islam and its supporters. She would then be under huge pressure to do something about Islam and its supporters besides countering terrorism.

What would she do? Would she support a full open public scrutiny and discussion on the politics of Islam in the various media - especially the print media? Every political organisation is fully and openly scrutinised except one - Islam - despite it being the most political of all the doctrines on the planet.

Does she have the strength of character to do anything or is she simply a coward who is out of her depth?

sum wrote:Does she have the strength of character to do anything or is she simply a coward who is out of her depth?

Difficult to say, but at the time she banned spencer and Geller it was claimed that she was influenced by a senior Home Office adviser who just happened to be a Muslim. The whole thing is complicated by years of cultural Marxism and politically correct pandering such that nobody in the Establishment can even hear what the real people of the country think without labeling them anything from stupid to murderous Nazis.

"If a woman passes one kilometer from someone who is praying, is the prayer canceled then? What is the maximum distance from which a prayer is cancelled altogether?" Majid Oukacha

manfred wrote:Even though his name was Malik, he must have been Irish or Chinese or something....

Yes, probably Chinese - that would explain the selling of the babies: back to China where they were only allowed to have one child.Seriously though: what's going on when the health visitor has to resort to sneaking the woman out of the house and the man is able to sell four babies? All without the police lifting a finger?

"If a woman passes one kilometer from someone who is praying, is the prayer canceled then? What is the maximum distance from which a prayer is cancelled altogether?" Majid Oukacha

More information - from Breitbart. Funny how you have to go to the alternative media to get some of the salient facts.

Speaking on Radio 4’s Today Programme, she explained how she was kept lock up for so long: “There were always three or four people with me, so I couldn’t see an escape. I never answered the doctors I just nodded or shook my head.

“I just wish that if someone had left the room then I could have said to the doctor: ‘Look, I need help, I’m being held, I need to get out’, but they never left the room. If I went to the toilet then they were outside the door.”

She also said in the book that she was “let down” by authorities and that people were afraid to help her because they could be accused of racism and discrimination.

“Malik dressed me in his culture’s clothes, dyed my hair black, made me wear a scarf and keep my head down”, she added.

“When he spoke for me they thought it was a cultural thing. And I think people are scared to be accused of discrimination.”

The information IS out there, but it takes some finding away from the main media. In discussion on Breitbart , it was said that the woman escaped while the family was occupied with Eid - so probably ruling out the Chinese Asians! I found it in the Birmingham Mail.

When she was told she was to travel with the entire family out of the UK, she summoned the courage to try to escape.

"Towards the end when they said they were taking me to Pakistan I knew that it was either kill myself or get out because I knew that I wasn't going to go to a wedding and I knew - they were probably stone me to death or sell me.

A health visit for one of her children finally presented her chance.

She managed to slip a note to the health care professional describing her awful situatiion.

Se described the moment she made a run for it.

"Near Ramadan they were all praying in the other room - the key was in the door and I saw the key- and I came down stairs and I opened the door: felt the fresh air.

"And I just ran and ran and ran until I got into the car ands she took me into her own home town.

"He came into the living room I had English clothes on and he asked why ave you got English clothes on and I said because I am.

"And he says you're coming with me you're coming back and thats the first time I ever stood up for myself and I said no I'm not going anywhere with you just go.

"And that's when me mum called the police and he went off in the van.

"But he threatened me and said if he saw me, he'd see my knee capped."

Despite her ordeal Anna has never reported her experiences to police out of fear.

"It's because I'm scared for my family I'm scared that he's going to come after me again.

As for the babies...

She had four children while being held captive. Each of them were taken from her and are thought to have been given to other families.

She relived the moment her first child was taken from her: "When I first held him it was like - all my life he was.

"As days went on I saw him a little tiny bit and the last day I saw him when he was circumcised and head-shaved. And then I knew, I knew I would never see him again."They wouldn't let me feed him never changed a nappy never dressed him they just kept him away from me.

"They took all of them away from me."

Despite numerous hospital visits, medical professionals were duped into believing he was her husband – yet she was too petrified to speak out.

"There were always three or four people with me so I couldn't speak I never answered the doctor I just nodded or shook my head.

"I just wish that if someone had left the room and I could say to the doctor I need help, I'm being held, I need to get out but they never left the room.

“There are a lot of vulnerable girls like I was. This could be happening on any street.” Anna fears it was because Malik was Asian that authorities she encountered during her captivity asked no questions.

She says: “Malik dressed me in his culture’s clothes, dyed my hair black, made me wear a scarf and keep my head down. When he spoke for me they thought it was a cultural thing. And I think people are scared to be accused of discrimination.”

<snip>“I barely held any of my babies, I did not get the chance to be a mother to them,” Anna says.

Each time, she would be marched out to hold her children for health visitors. But once contact stopped, the baby would be sold.

“I do not know where they are,” she admits.

It seems astonishing that no professional raised the alarm when they met this mute, six-stone girl.

Once, the police visited the house when Anna’s screams were heard – but Malik convinced them all was fine. For herself, Anna says she simply became too terrified to escape.

“Twice I tried to get out of the back door but I got such a beating,” she admits.

[url][url]http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/midland-girl-held-sex-slave-12380866[/url]My quotes overlap a bit, being from two consecutive reports. Both make harrowing but necessary reading.Poor woman, vile creatures, despicable authorities.

"If a woman passes one kilometer from someone who is praying, is the prayer canceled then? What is the maximum distance from which a prayer is cancelled altogether?" Majid Oukacha

Murderer of Asad Shah sends hate messages from his jail cell to extremists

The family of murdered shopkeeper Asad Shah have hit out after his killer sent recorded hate messages to extremist supporters.

In a recording broadcast by extremist websites, Tanveer Ahmed called on supporters to “eliminate” enemies of Islam – from his cell at Barlinnie Prison.

Ahmed, who travelled to Glasgow from England to murder southside shopkeeper Asad Shah, was jailed for 27 years in August.

The newsagent was targeted because he posted videos online urging religious tolerance.

Asad’s family’s lawyer Aamer Anwar said UK anti-terror police have tried to get the Scottish Prison Service to put a stop to the recordings made by Ahmed in prison, after a similar recorded rant in September.

He said Asad’s family have been traumatised by the video.

In the latest 10-minute recording in Urdu from January 7, Ahmed goes on a violent rant in support of a jailed Pakistani terrorist.

Shopkeeper Shah, a member of the Ahmadi Muslim sect, was stabbed and beaten to death outside his shop last March.

Sunni Muslim Ahmed, 32, claimed he had been acting to defend the “honour” of the Prophet Muhammad.

Anwar said yesterday: “The family of Asad Shah continue to be traumatised by this man who has already caused them so much grief.

"Not only has he murdered an innocent man, he continues to taunt the family from inside a Scottish prison with calls supporting terrorism.

“If he has access to a phone and is able to get recordings to his supporters, that is surely something that could be easily stopped by the Scottish Prison Service. Can’t they simply take his phone away?

“It is our understanding that anti-terror police have already been in touch with the prison service to try to put a stop to this. But these messages of hate are still being broadcast.

“Tanveer Ahmed said he would be happy to serve 100 years in jail – yet the first thing he did from his jail cell was launch an appeal against his conviction.

"Now he is making comments that are incitement to hatred. The family would like to see him silenced.”

In Ahmed’s audio, he said: “Anyone who disregards the respect and honour of Ghazi [Islamic holy warrior] Mumtaz Qadri, he is the one who announces his enmity with Islam openly.

“Whoever calls the martyr (Qadri) an assassin, he is vicious, unclean and false.”

Ahmed calls on followers to “eliminate all of the enemies of Islam and uplift the flag of Islam”.

The new recording appears on a Facebook page associated with Pakistani cleric Khadim Hussain Rizvi, of the Khatme Nubuwwat movement, whose name translates as “Finality of the Prophet”.

In the UK, we have some residential buildings owned by local authorities. They contain apartments rented out to people usually at a lower rent than private rental property, and because of that there is a always a waiting list for these properties.

The buildings are generally given a name, after a local hero or former politician, for example.